THE TIMES 100 : THE BOTTOM LINE : Profit Margins

Companies ranked by profit from continuing operations as a % of sales.

1992 Rank Company Return % 1 Carter Hawley Hale 38.5 2 Magma Power 33.4 3 Amgen Inc. 32.7 4 ALZA Corp. 31.5 5 Franklin Resources Inc. 30.1 6 N. American Mortgage 27.2 7 Cisco Systems 25.9 8 Collagen Corporation 23.4 9 Linear Technology Corp. 22.5 10 American Residential 22.1 11 Countrywide Credit 21.5 12 Plaza Home Mortgage 21.1 13 W D-40 Co. 19.0 14 McGrath RentCorp 18.6 15 MacNeal-Schwendler 18.6 16 Argonaut Group Inc. 18.4 17 Intel Corp. 18.3 18 Walker Interactive Sys. 17.1 19 Informix Corp. 16.8 20 Diagnostic Products 16.7 21 Adobe Systems Inc. 16.4 22 Syntex Corp. 16.3 23 Advanced Micro Devices 16.2 24 Maxim Integ. Products 15.9 25 Downey Svgs. & Loan 15.6

Source: STAR Services.